The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1887-12-15

rying concealed weapons. The discus
Sioh MSted Till lO p. M, when the House
by vote of rs to 81 decided to recon-
NIT the bill, and then adjourned.
THE PHOSPHATE BILL.
The phosphate bill, the provisions OF
which have already been summarized in
these columns, caused quite @ lengthy
debate III the Senate. The various bro.
VISIONS OF the bill! were freely discussed
Ihe iirst vote came up on Senator Tai
bert's motion to make the duration of
the proposed grant ten years instead of
twenty. This amendment was lost by q
vote of II nays to 16 yeas. Next his
amendment tC increase the ROYALTY was
lost by vote of 25 nays to 10 yeas.
Various other amendments wore offered.
with varying results, but without indi.
eating the sense of the Senate upon tho
measure as whole. Finally Senator
Noise, OF Sumter, moved to indefinitely
postpone the bill. Senator Murray
moved to table this motion. The yeas
and nays were called, and the vote stood
as follows:
Yeas-Alexander, Bell, Bieman, Buist.
Edward, Field, Howell, Murray, Moore,
Munro, MoMaster, Reynolds, Sinkler,
Sigh, Smythe, Talbert, Williams-17.
Naays-Auetin, Black, Byrd, Crews,
Erwin, Hemphill, Izlar, Kennedy,
Moody, Mccall, Noise, Patterson,
Ehame, Smith, Wofford, Wingard,
Woodward and Youmans-i9.
The bill was then indefinitely post
poDed without division.
SOME NEW MEASURES.
Quite number of new measures have
been introduced-among them the fol
lowing:
In the Senate: Bill to amend the trial
justice law.
Bill to regulate licenses for insurance
companies doing business in this State.
Bill to ronew and amend the charter
of the Oak Point Mining Company.
Bill to extend, amend and renew the
charter of the Farmers Phosphate Com
pany.
Bill incorporating the Security Say
ings Bank Of Charleston.
Bill incorporating the Summerville
Building and LoanAssociation.
by Senator Moore, bill to restore q
per diem payment to county boards of
examiners.
In the House: Mr.. Lesesne, bill to re-
peal certain Acts so US to remit the
county OF Colleton to the operations of
Chapter 27, General Statutes, relating to
the stock law.
MIR. Abney, bill to amend Chapter 72,
&C., of the General Statutes relating to
assignments by insolvent debtors.
Mr.. Ancrum, bill to charter the Cam
den Street Railway Company.
MIR. league, bill requiring the super
intendent Of the Penitentiary to provide
separate maintenance, lodging and train
ing for criminals under Is years of age.
Mr. Plowdcn, bill to authorize the
town council of Forreston to borrow
money for building an academy and
boarding house.
Mr.. Johnston, bill to abolish the Office
OF superintendent Of highways in Pick
ems county.
ABOUT THE CENSUS.
There was a long and earnest debate
in tho House on the bill to re-apDortion
the representatives according to the bill
previously reported by the proper COM
mittee., This bill simply provides that
there shall be q reapportionment of ROD
resentatlon on the basis of the United
States census of 1880 and divides out
the Representatives among the counties,
taklrg four from Charleston and ono
each from Aiken, Hampton and Rich
land counties, and giving an additional
Representative to Beaufort, Edgefield,
GreenVllle, Laurens, Marlboro, Spartan
burg and Sumter counties.
There was q long and earnest debate
the opponents Of the bill resting their
objections mainly upon the ground that
it would be in violation Of the State
Constitution.
The yeas and nays were called on the
motion to strike out the enacting words.
During the call of the roll there was per-
feet silence in the House, most of the
members keeping tally of the votes.
The motion was finally declared lost by
a vote of 81 to 60.
Mr.. Haskell offered an amendment,
which was accepted, providing that this
apportionment shall only hold good I'M
til after the adjournment of the General
Assembly which will be elected in 1890.
After some further debate it was sug-
gested that tho apportionment set forth
In the bill had never been verified by
reference to the records of the census Of
1880, as filed in the office Of the Secre-
tary of State.
Afte- some discussion Mr.. Haskells
motion to recommit to q special commit
tee was adopted on division, with the
understanding that the committee should
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figures and that the bill would then be
taken up for it's third reading, the oppo-
sition guaranteeing that it should not
lose its place on the Calendar. The
special committee appointed by the
Speaker was composed of Messrs. Simp-
son, Douglass and Aldrich.
The committee, on the day following,
reported that they had made the neces-
sary calculations, and found that the
representation would be as follows: Alb
beyille 5, Aikon B, Anderson 4, Barn
well 5, Beaufort 4, Berkeley 5, Charles
ton 8, Chester 3, Clarendon 2, Colleton
8, Darlington 4, Edgefeld 6, Fairfield 3,
Georgetown 2, Greenville s, Hampton
2, Horny 2, Kershaw 3, Lancaster 3,
La9rens 4, Lexington 2, Marion 4,
Marlboro 3, Newberry 8, Oconoe 2,
Orangeburg 5, Pickens 2, Richland 4,
S3partanburg s, Sumter 5, Union 3, Will
liamsburg 3, York Z.
The committee stated that in appor-
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